Eclipse best/good or bad IDE for Python?

[Fabio Zadrozny]

Hi Chris,

I think that you should try it yourself... being the *best ide*  is 
usually a subjective matter, so, you should decide yourself if it is the 
best IDE for the task you want it to.

I must also warn you that I'm its current maintainer, and it is *my* 
favorite IDE :-)

Also, I use it for large projects (2569 .py files on my python 
installation and about 1800 .py files in my project), and, altough I 
agree with the general idea that you need a fast computer to use it at 
optimal performance, I found that using an athlon 1600+ with 512mb RAM 
was enough for me when using eclipse with pydev (also, the features 
provided by eclipse are more than worth the loss of speed when editing 
some things when compared to editors such as vi or emacs, altough the 
learning curve for that might not be so light, in the long run, I'm 
pretty sure that it is worth it -- altough I really miss a faster 
machine for compiling c++).

But in the end, as I said, it is a subjective matter, so, you'll have to 
decide it for yourself.

Cheers,

Fabio

seberino at spawar.navy.mil wrote:

>I'm trying to move beyond Emacs/Vim/Kate
>and was wondering if Eclipse is better and if it is the *best*
>IDE for Python.
>
>Should I leave Emacs and do Python coding in Eclipse?
>
>Chris
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